Wednesday, 21 October 2020

Coronavirus: living samples found on frozen food packaging in east China’s Qingdao, CDC says

An outbreak of Covid-19 in Qingdao, which started last month and was linked to two port workers who had been patients at the same hospital. The workers were asymptomatic, but a few days later, a total of another13 people were infected.

CDC could not confirm whether the workers were infected by handling infected packages or contaminated the packages themselves after contracting the virus somewhere else.

According to the CDC investigation, living samples of the coronavirus have been detected on frozen food packaging.

Testing of Qingdao's 10 million residents was carried out over five days. To be exact, the total number is 10,899,145. What an incredible feat!

There are many news media outlets publishing the same story but a great deal of variation. In order to find out the authenticity, I turned to YouTube, and the China newspaper, not just relying on South China Morning Post.

Several news articles do not mention anything about the frizen food, and presence of virus in the packaging causing the cross infection. They mainly emphasise the hospital not being decontaminated properly.

The number of people tested varies greatly, from 4 million to 11 million.

Thank you for reading.

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3106000/coronavirus-living-samples-found-frozen-food-packaging-east http://sd.people.com.cn/n2/2020/1017/c166192-34356146.html